The folks at Sony Corp. have pulled a Dutch billboard advertising campaign for the new white version of their PlayStation Portable video game player, and apologized to anyone offended by the ad, which critics dubbed racist.
A billboard ad in the campaign portrayed a white woman aggressively grabbing the face of a black woman and read “PlayStation Portable White is Coming.” Here’s the story:
Undated handout photograph shows Dutch billboard advertisement. REUTERS/joystiq.com/Handout
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Whomever came up with this ad should be fired - not necessarily for being racist, but for being so dumb as to not realize that people were going to get offended.
- Posted by Rogue Historian